Description: Discussion among experts. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: This paper examines demographic characteristics of people over the age of 100 in Spain and how this has changed over time.

Description: These are the discussant comments for the concurrent Session 2B: Older-Age Mortality Trends from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: Discussion of the differences between aging and disease research and factors affecting longevity. Argues that elimination of most mortality risk will not create a dramatic increase in life expectancy.

Description: This is the author's reply to Dr. Kingkade's discussion of the referenced paper. The author supplies written citations to old age and indicates he does not believe in any fixed limit to the human lifespan.

Description: Mortality Improvement Scale MP-2016 is an update to Mortality Improvement Scale MP-2015 that includes three additional years of historical U.S. population mortality data and modification of two input values designed to improve the model’s year-over-year financial stability. The page includes the updated Scale MP-2016, the accompanying Scale MP-2016 document, and an updated RPEC_2014_v2016 Model Implementation Tool for actuaries to create their own mortality improvement scales using RPEC’s model and the updated data set.

Description: This paper discusses the increasing body of demographic, genetic and medical data being generated from studies of centenarians and the increasingly greater genetic contribution to the ability to survive to ages beyond 100.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2002. This paper proposes a standard operating procedure for testing the Gompertz assumption using yearly age-specific mortality data, and the impacts of the data collection period and population sizes on the testing results are discussed.

Description: Using Taiwan Complete Life Tables as the data source, a model is developed using reliability theory and the results of the proposed model are compared to Gompertz’s law.

Description: The abstract for the paper An Investigation of Select Birth Cohorts.